Riots expected after acquittal: Michael Brown

[RossMAN]

Lots of pictures here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hooting-unarmed-black-teen-Michael-Brown.html

 

[JackBurton]

Awwww, look at those sweet little innocent children on their way to college. Just warms the heart.

 

[IEC]

Before anyone claims "outside agitators":

 

[waggy]

Awwww, look at those sweet little innocent children on their way to college. Just warms the heart.

good kids. helping clean up the mess!

 

[surfsatwerk]

Lots of pictures here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hooting-unarmed-black-teen-Michael-Brown.html

Great link, thanks.

 

[RossMAN]

On my way out the door to work. I wonder what international (outside 'Merica) media outlets are reporting about last night?

Anyone in the UK, Europe, Asia or Canada care to chime in?

 

[waggy]

Did you ever see what Aaron's charges to rent those suckers monthly?

It's highway robbery. People should be protesting that instead.

Is Aarons like rent a center? when i was 10 years I needed a new washer and dryer. I didn't have the $1000 cash to buy a new one at lowes. I looked at RAC and they had some. It was something insane like $20 a week for each. it was over a period of 3 fucking years. So something like $6k to buy them both.

 

[highland145]

Is Aarons like rent a center? when i was 10 years I needed a new washer and dryer. I didn't have the $1000 cash to buy a new one at lowes. I looked at RAC and they had some. It was something insane like $20 a week for each. it was over a period of 3 fucking years. So something like $6k to buy them both.

So did you?

 

[KLin]

Is Aarons like rent a center? when i was 10 years I needed a new washer and dryer. I didn't have the $1000 cash to buy a new one at lowes. I looked at RAC and they had some. It was something insane like $20 a week for each. it was over a period of 3 fucking years. So something like $6k to buy them both.

You had to buy your own washer and dryer when you were 10 years old? D:

 

[Exterous]

You had to buy your own washer and dryer when you were 10 years old? D:

And carry them uphill both ways through the snow. Shit was tough when Waggy was young

 

[highland145]

And carry them uphill both ways through the snow. Shit was tough when Waggy was young

And got his knees broken because he was late.


Sad.

 

[waggy]

You had to buy your own washer and dryer when you were 10 years old? D:

damn right! it was rough.

And carry them uphill both ways through the snow. Shit was tough when Waggy was young

SHUT UP AND STAY OFF MY LAWN!

/me waves his cane.


I meant to say "10 years ago". i blame it on not having enough coffee yet.

So did you?

hell no. I went to Lowes and got a credit card. I got some cheap whirlpools. spent a total of $900 or so. I am still using them!

though i been looking at those nice front loaders.

 

[SMOGZINN]

is any one really that surprised animals are acting like animals?

Awwww, look at those sweet little innocent children on their way to college. Just warms the heart.

good kids. helping clean up the mess!

When this is representative reaction of Americans, is it any wonder that they are pissed and no longer willing to follow the rules?

I don't condone the violence, but I understand the rage.

 

[pontifex]

Just boggles my mind that people act this way.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

When this is representative reaction of Americans, is it any wonder that they are pissed and no longer willing to follow the rules?

I don't condone the violence, but I understand the rage.

The issue is that the representative reactions of Americans is driven by what they see in the likes of those who represent those who use violence and have a bloodlust beyond justice. Like I said when Obama gets into an elevator he can no longer say that it's his color that's a driving source of discomfort but actions that are tacitly approved or at least ignored which harm the truly innocent. I understand too much.

 

[cubby1223]

When this is representative reaction of Americans, is it any wonder that they are pissed and no longer willing to follow the rules?

I don't condone the violence, but I understand the rage.

And it absolutely boggles the mind why a large percentage of a race of people see others looting and stealing, and turn the other way, support it in the name of "greater justice".

People of all color should be pissed off at the theft and violence that occurs in their neighborhoods. But many aren't. It's like they are proud of it! They're proud their neighbors do not follow the white-man's rule of law.

It's very sad. And disturbing.

 

[sourceninja]

When this is representative reaction of Americans, is it any wonder that they are pissed and no longer willing to follow the rules?

I don't condone the violence, but I understand the rage.

You want to be treated like a person, act like one. You act like a criminal or an animal expect to be treated like one.

We tell kids never judge a book by it's cover, but the reality is that people are not books, and you can judge them superficially with pretty good accuracy.

 

[Svnla]

Justify to shoot or not = https://www.facebook.com/cnn/photos/pcb.10153091426536509/10153091417776509/?type=1


What would you do if a huge guy punched you twice already and about to give you another big one in the face? Shoot to stop the threat or just take it because you don't want to upset him?

 

[lozina]

Why can't we just carve out a big chunk of Alaska, name it something like Ghettostan and deport people like this there? They can have their own system of justice where the mobs rule. The mob who trashes their own community the most are the deemed the winners of any disputes.

 

[moonbogg]

I have automatic racist thoughts as a result of this, but I realize those thoughts are merely reactive and primitive. When searching deeper, I have sympathy for the people of Ferguson because I can find more similarities between us than differences.
I know what its like to get angry about something, even though I was wrong about the situation all along. I know what its like to misjudge a situation, feel I am right, and despite realizing I was wrong, to stubbornly maintain that anger and justify it with past events.
I know what its like to feel like others are better than me and to be resentful for that. I know the pain that fills me when I feel like I am less than others, and an outcast. I know what it feels like to believe I was born at the short end of the stick in life, regardless of whether or not I am correct in my assumptions.
I know what its like to be human and to make cognitive errors and to operate based on emotions alone, like a child who begs for candy at dinner time instead of eating what their parents give them.
The people of Ferguson were wrong about what took place with Michael Brown, but I understand their pain and don't fault them for it. I don't fault them for looting and taking advantage of the situation. I don't fault them for being wrong and pouting about it when they lost.
None of this is their fault. None of this is anyone's fault. They are like me and I am like them. We are flesh and faulty. We presume one thing when another is actually true, and we get angry about it. We share in our frustrations of being human and imperfect, incapable of manipulating our environment to suit our needs.
The people of Ferguson were wrong and acted out in anger, and I love them anyway for who they are, not for what they do, even though sometimes I forget and once again am quick to judge.

 

[brandonb]

Why can't we just carve out a big chunk of Alaska, name it something like Ghettostan and deport people like this there? They can have their own system of justice where the mobs rule. The mob who trashes their own community the most are the deemed the winners of any disputes.

These people won't survive in Alaska. (I'm ok with that, personally.) They'd have to live on the charity of the Eskimos. I wouldn't want to put that liability on those people, they already have a hard enough time trying to survive.

 

[surfsatwerk]

https://www.facebook.com/cnn/photos/pcb.10153091426536509/10153091417776509/?type=1

Those responses.

 

[norseamd]

Why can't we just carve out a big chunk of Alaska, name it something like Ghettostan and deport people like this there? They can have their own system of justice where the mobs rule. The mob who trashes their own community the most are the deemed the winners of any disputes.

20% of Alaskans are Indigenous. What makes you think they are even going to want something like this?

 

[SP33Demon]

Calling all investors, Ferguson land and houses have now dropped to below Detroit levels as the best "buy low" opportunity of the century!

 

[HN]

Lots of pictures here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hooting-unarmed-black-teen-Michael-Brown.html

Brazzers